No defender of slavery, I concede that it has its benevolent aspects in lifting the Negro from savagery and helping prepare him for that eventual freedom which is surely written in the Book of Fate

Quote by Thomas Jefferson

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No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

No man has a natural right to commit aggression on the equal rights of another,...

Tranquility is the old mans milk

Tranquility is the old mans milk

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the...

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the...

Laws are made for men of ordinary understanding and should, therefore, be construed by the...

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with...

Politics is such a torment that I advise everyone I love not to mix with...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like...

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

Pride costs more than hunger, thirst and cold.

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

The God who gave us life gave us liberty at the same time; the hand...

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Whatever enables us to go to war, secures our peace

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Those who sacrifice freedom for safety deserve neither.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

Resort is had to ridicule only when reason is against us.

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than...

It is always better to have no ideas than false ones; to believe nothing, than...

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Taste cannot be controlled by law.

Power is not alluring to pure minds

Power is not alluring to pure minds

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending...

I would rather be exposed to the inconveniences attending too much liberty than those attending...

The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life,...

The evidence of the natural rights of expatriation, like that of our right to life,...

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

Men of quality are not threatened by women of equality

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or...

It does me no injury for my neighbor to say there are twenty gods or...

Even God cannot change the past.

Even God cannot change the past.

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see...

How good and how pleasant it would be before God and man, yeah to see...